Hi! I’m looking for books and authors which are '‘good with words’. What I mean is, I’m looking for stuff where they are good at painting a picture with words, the words and sentences flow really well, the choice of words is good, stuff like that. I think this is called ‘good prose’. I’m not sure though.
Thanks in advance. Happy Reading!
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E. L. Doctorow.
Christopher Hitchens
100 Years of Solitude. I don’t read for language, but that is some memorable stuff.
Vladimir Nabokov
The Old Man and the Sea is a delightful book written in clear, clean language. Highly recommend it!
David Sedaris is a good one
Raymond Chandler, Elizabeth Strout, Alice Monroe
John Crowley’s ‘Little, Big’ is 500 pages of some of the most beautiful prose I have read.
What about F. Scott Fitzgerald? If your looking for classic works, I feel like his stuff is incredibly vivid.
If you like wordplay, cleverness, and great emotion try watching something like Hamlet or Romeo+Juliet and throw the closed captioning on. I wouldn’t suggest reading it unless you’re very comfortable with old modern English.
Terry Pratchett for the win! His use of language is masterful.
Cormac McCarthy. That man could paint a picture with words.
Recently I really enjoyed Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë. I can definitely recommend it.
Just pick up a huge volume of F Scott Fitzgerald’s short stories.
I read James Lee Burke novels for the pure pleasure of how he puts words together. I enjoy his good vs evil stories and flawed characters, but his words are what really draw me in.
Dorothy Dunnett